flexuosus
From LSJ
οὐ γὰρ εἰς περιουσίαν ἐπράττετ' αὐτοῖς τὰ τῆς πόλεως → for selfish greed had no place in their statesmanship
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
flexŭōsus: a, um, adj. 2. flexus,
I full of turns or windings, tortuous, flexuous, crooked, winding.
I Lit.: flexuosum iter habet auditus, ne quid intrare possit, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144: Taurus mons, Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98: volatus hirundini, id. 10, 24, 35, § 73.—Sup.: intestina flexuosissimis orbibus, Plin. 11, 37, 79, § 200.—*
II Trop.: fraudes, Prud. Cath. 6, 143.—* Adv.: flexu-ōse, tortuously: si flexuose volitet flamma, Plin. 18, 35, 84, § 357.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
flexŭōsus,¹⁵ a, um (flexus 2), tortueux, sinueux : Cato Agr. 33, 1 ; Cic. Nat. 2, 144 || -issimus Plin. 11, 200.
